Shopify Product Management
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Hide Custom Sign Products from Your Storefront
Each time a customer adds a custom sign to the cart, our app creates the sign as a "product" in your Shopify admin. Shopify needs this product to handle and sell the sign. You can hide these customised products from the pages where customers browse your store. There are two ways to hide them. Use only one of them. Option 1 (recommended): Unlist your custom sign products. One setting in Sign Customiser hides each new custom sign from collection pages, search results and product recommendations in Shopify. A third-party search or recommendation app that does not support the Unlisted status can still show these products, so check any such app. Option 2: Keep the products "Active" and hide them with your Shopify storefront settings. This option has several steps in Shopify.
Automatically deleting generated products
Delete unpurchased Custom Neon products automatically with the Mechanic app. Use Test mode first, then switch to Live mode.
Retrieve generated sign products not purchased
Sign Customiser adds the sign-customiser-generated tag to each product that it generates after the release at 10:46 UTC on 3 August 2026. After Sign Customiser records a Shopify order for a product, it adds the npc_ordered tag to that product in Shopify. Use both tags in the Shopify product search to find generated products that do not have the npc_ordered tag. Log in to your Shopify admin and open Products. Click the Search and filter field. Enter tag:sign-customiser-generated AND NOT tag:npc_ordered. Shopify shows the generated sign products that do not have the npc_ordered tag. Filter one customiser Products generated after the release at 18:13 UTC on 3 August 2026 also have a tag that is sc-customiser- and the Customiser ID. For example, to see only the products from customiser 9025, add AND tag:sc-customiser-9025 to the search. The full search is tag:sign-customiser-generated AND tag:sc-customiser-9025 AND NOT tag:npc_ordered. Find the ID in the Customiser ID column on the Customisers page in Sign Customiser. You can also open the managed collection that has the name of the customiser. These limits apply: Sign Customiser does not create this collection on Shopify Starter or Retail stores. If the customiser has no name, the collection title is Customiser followed by the ID, for example Customiser 9025. The collection also shows purchased products. The npc_ordered tag does not remove a product from the collection. To leave out purchased products, use the full search in the Search and filter field on the Shopify admin Products page.
How your products are created
Sign Customiser makes a product each time a customer designs a sign and adds it to the cart.
How SEO is treated for Custom Signs in Shopify
Sign Customiser hides the custom sign products it creates from search engines. For each product that the app creates in your Shopify store, the app sets the Shopify product metafield seo.hidden to 1. Shopify then adds noindex and nofollow tags to the product page. Shopify also removes the product from your sitemap. You do not need to do anything for this.
Change Shopify Sale Channel for Products
Use the Publication field in your Shopify integration. It sets the publication for new sign products. The sign customiser publishes each new product to this publication. The setting applies only to products that the sign customiser creates after you click Update. Products that already exist keep their current publication. This change does not move them. In Shopify Admin, open the Sign Customiser app. On the Home page, in the Menu card, click Tools & Settings. Click Integrations and Webhooks. On the Shopify card, click View Details. In the top right corner, click Edit Integration. In the Publication field, select a publication. If you select Default (Online Store), the sign customiser publishes new products to the Online Store publication. Click Update.
Autogenerate SKU for sign products in Shopify?
Our app creates a new product in Shopify for each custom sign that a customer adds to the cart. The app does not assign SKUs. You can use a third-party app to assign them automatically. This article shows you how.
Free Shipping for Custom Products in Shopify
You can give free shipping to the sign products that our app generates. Shopify's default settings make this difficult. Our app creates a new product when a shopper adds a design to the cart. You therefore cannot add that product to a Shopify shipping profile in advance, because the app creates it only when a shopper adds a design to the cart. Shopify adds every new product to your general shipping profile. How to identify generated sign products Use the Sign Customiser Products collection or the sign-customiser-generated tag. To select one customiser, use its collection or the tag sc-customiser- followed by the Customiser ID. For example, a customiser with Customiser ID 9025 has the tag sc-customiser-9025. You can find the Customiser ID in the customisers list in the merchant admin. Use the product type only if you have no other choice. Neon signs have the type Custom Neon. Other categories use these types: Custom Acrylic Sign, Custom Metal Sign, Custom Cut-out Metal Sign, Custom Stencil, Custom Wooden Sign, Custom Aluminium Sign, Custom Braille Sign, Custom Wood Frame Sign and Custom Lightbox. Shopify Starter and Retail plans: Sign Customiser does not create collections on these plans. Generated products still receive both tags. Use a tag condition.